My Dog Billy (the only song I ever wrote and the LAST) :)

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Auguste

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since 2000-02-16

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By the sea

0 posted 2001-06-27 04:26 PM

My Dog Billy

by Michael

Oh my dog fell out of the pickup
and he broke his dadburn neck.
He didn't have much to live for,
so he really didn't give a heck.

He used to chase them rabbits
out in the woods afar,
but he fell out of the pickup
and got squashed by a big green car.

Oh I worked all day and I worked all night,
trying to forget my grief,
but the grief kept building in me.
It just wouldn't let me be.

Because Billy was my only dog.
The onliest dog I ever knowed.
The onliest dog I ever cared
to call me friend.

Oh my dog fell out of the pickup
and I'll miss him every day.
He won't be near beside me
when I go to church to pray.

He hunts in the woods in Heaven
and he chases rabbits still,
but there ain't no pick-ups there,
so Billy cain't get killed. (again)

He used to foller with me
when I walked down to the store
and brought me back a sixpack,
but that's to be no more.

I buried him in the pasture
and I carved him out a stone.
I even buried with him
his favorite chewed-up bone.

Oh Billy's gone forever now.
I put him in the pasture with the cow.
I planted flowers on him,
because I loved him so.

I'm lonelier than I ever was
and the onliest reason is becuz
he fell out of the pickup
and now he's gone.

I sometimes think I hear him
in the stillness of the night.
I fumbled for the string
that turns on the bedroom light.

But the barking it ain't Billy's,
because he cain't bark no more.
It's just some idiot neighbor's dog
scratching at my door.

I was in my garden t'other day
pulling at some weeds,
when up there strolled a puppy,
trampling all my seeds.

He took a liking to me
and I patted him on the head.
I've been feeding him all my table scraps,
my beans and my cornbread.

I think I'll call him Billy.
Cain't think of another name.
He's uglier than Billy was,
but he kinda looks the same.

The next time I hear scratching,
I'll know whose dog it is.
I'll let ole Billy in
and give him a great big kiss.

Oh I won't let him ride in the bed,
Because old Billy did and got killed real dead.
He rides up front with me,
with his seatbelt on.

I gave up all the beer I drunk,
when the possum I ate was really a skunk.
I knowed my eyes was damaged from alcohol.

I've really missed my Billy
and I know that this is silly,
but if you wuz a dumb ole Southern hick
I think you'd understand.

It's better than watching the cars all rust
and this gave you a laugh I trust.
If you've never known a Southern hick,
well now you do.

Michael Auguste~
There is more depth to the heart than the human mind can comprehend and it only has boundaries when we choose to fence it in.

Interloper

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

1 posted 2001-06-27 04:34 PM

This has it all, pickup, beer ... oops, no wimmen

SEA

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Member Seraphic

since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

2 posted 2001-06-27 04:44 PM

being a redneck girl.....LOL this was great....

Cpat Hair

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since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

3 posted 2001-06-27 06:06 PM

Well now... sounds a hole peck like Billy was one fine dog.... never have rained mine to fetch that six pack..so reckon ifn you did... he musta been mighty smart

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

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4 posted 2001-06-27 06:28 PM

Michael my friend...all I can say is..thanks for the billylaugh. Much enjoyed!

Sven

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since 1999-11-23

Posts 14937
East Lansing, MI USA

5 posted 2001-06-27 06:31 PM

well Sir, that was a right mighty fine dog that you'un had there. . . yep. . .mighty fine. . .

great job. . .

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magnolia
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since 2001-05-05

Posts 16

6 posted 2001-06-27 08:16 PM

This could be a country hit! Go for it! I love it!

Call Travis!

Magnolia

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

7 posted 2001-06-27 09:41 PM

The gammit of emotions from one end t'other,
seems that Billy was less a dog
and much more like a brother.

Well now, yer doin' better things now
for this here new Billy you be totin'
Glad yer not puttin' to the bed
ner drinkin' what's verboten.

I'm thinkin' too, good buddy,
that you might be stoppin' short
o' makin' up them song tunes
fer memories and sport.

[This message has been edited by VAS (edited 06-27-2001).]

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